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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
House of Tomorrow	Claire Lorrimer	This is the moving story of Jeanette Roberts, a young London girl who survived appalling abuse in her own childhood, and so determined to give other children in the same position the love and care sh…	OL10540186W
If There Be Thorns	V. C. Andrews	If There Be Thorns is a novel by Virginia Andrews which was published in 1981. It is the third book in the Dollanganger series. The story takes place in the year 1982. The book is narrated by tw…	OL134891W
House Rules	Rachel Sontag	At an early age, Rachel Sontag realized there was something deeply wrong with her father. On the surface, he was a well-respected, suburban physician. But questioning his authority led to brutal figh…	OL14958694W
Emotion-focused therapy for complex trauma	Sandra C. Paivio	Psychotherapy clients with histories of childhood abuse and complex relational trauma are ubiquitous, and have notoriously high drop-out rates. These clients have been unable to heal past emotional i…	OL15451918W
The doctor's house	Ann Beattie	Nina, her brother Andrew, and their mother each give their perspective on the family's relationships and their memories of their late father/husband.	OL15859354W
Guard A Silver Sixpence	Felicity Davis	Yorkshire Memoirs	OL16208800W
Mummy from Hell	Kenneth Doyle,Patrick Doyle	Kenneth and Patrick Doyle grew up in a family of nine children in Tullamore, Co Offaly. Though the home was dysfunctional and all the children suffered at the hands of their parents, Kenneth and Patr…	OL17395565W
Das verbannte Wissen	Alice Miller	This book was excellent. For people who had abusive or traumatic childhoods, it provides answers, explanations, and validation.	OL1873228W
Is There Life Without Mother? Psychoanalysis, Biography, Creativity	Leonard Shengold	""Is there life without mother?" is a patient's plaintive summary, after years of analysis, of his ongoing struggle to find his own identity. But the question is also, as Leonard Shengold reminds us,…	OL1915071W
Estranged	Jessica Berger Gross	A powerful, haunting memoir about one woman's childhood of abuse and her harrowing decision to leave it all behind that redefines our understanding of estrangement and the ability to triumph over adv…	OL19713224W
The long road home	Danielle Steel	Bestselling novelist Danielle Steel takes us on a harrowing journey into the heart of America's hidden shame in a novel that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark side of childhood, and one wom…	OL19727W
Malice	Danielle Steel	The compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruellest kind of malice. At seventeen, on the night of her mother's funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. A y…	OL19779W
Salvar tu vida	Alice Miller	"Verdadero legado y quintaesencia de sus investigaciones, Miller no sólo explica, como en sus ensayos anteriores, la dinámica entro las causas y las consecuencias de la violencia contra la infancia, …	OL19936057W
It wasn't your fault	Beverly Engel	"Shame is one of the most destructive of human emotions. If you suffered childhood physical or sexual abuse, you may experience such intense feelings of shame that it almost seems to define you as a …	OL20011391W
Hold me close	Megan Hart	"Apart, they are broken, but together, they are whole. Effie and Heath are famous. Not for anything they did, but for what happened to them as teenagers. Abducted and abused by the same man, they tur…	OL20017053W
The nipper	Charlie Mitchell	Charlie lives with Jock, his violent, disturbed, alcoholic father in a Dundee tenement. Money is scarce, and Jocks love of vodka means that Charlie bears the brunt of his abuse. Often too bruised to …	OL21730411W
Anger man	Roy Chester	"Assistant Chief Constable David Mallory and profiler Fiona Nightingale investigate three murders with a sinister connection. They release a dark evil lurking in the depths of the Ring - a decade-old…	OL24248197W
Tell me why, mummy	Thomas, David	When sober, David's mother was the perfect mum, baking cake playing games. David adored her. But when drunk she turned into the monster of David's worst nightmares. Half-dressed, she'd rampage around…	OL24302138W
A man named Dave	David J. Pelzer	Dave Pelzer's father never intervened as his mother abused him with shocking brutality. She told her son she could kill him any time she wanted to -- and nearly did. But even years after he was rescu…	OL24437193W
Destiny unknown	Derek Leinster	At 18 Derek fulfilled his dreams to go to England and meet his destiny. This book follows his fight to establish a life for himself in a new country. Despite his disadvantages - his lack of social sk…	OL26214172W